Quirky baby products

Your new baby has arrived. Congratulations! Time to bring her home to that brand new nursery where you will bust out the dipes, wipes, onesies, and — baby wig? There are lots of quirky baby products on the market. Are they practical or downright silly? We’ll let you decide by taking our survey after each product we show you. And please share a quirky baby product you’ve bought or received as a gift and tell us whether you give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down and why.
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My Carry Potty

This potty “freaks a lot of people out,” Jamie Grayson, a.k.a. The Baby Guy, told us when we caught up with him at Pottypalooza. That’s because it’s a travel potty that seals in your child’s waste if you aren’t able to clean it out immediately. Parents wonder if it truly holds everything in, he said. (According to Grayson, it does).

This is more for mom than for baby. Women can preserve that “liquid gold” and be reminded of the breastfeeding bond by wearing their own breast milk around their neck. This pendant, made of breast milk, is personalized by Allicia and sold on Etsy.com. She explains how she does it on her blog.

Baby Bangs are headbands with hair attached made for baby girls. It turns your bald baby into a baby with luxurious locks in seconds. Parents can cut the bangs, but the company warns that babies shouldn’t sleep in it and parents shouldn’t take a curling iron to it. Choose from golden auburn, natural black, various shades of brown, or natural blonde.

This training potty has a built-in iPad stand to entertain your little bathroom novice while he goes. The stand rotates so your child can view it horizontally or vertically. There’s also a removable screen guard to protect your iPad from, ahem, any substance it may come into contact with. For children age 18 months to 3 years.

Turning a crawling baby’s outfit into a mop cleans your floors while freeing up valuable time for you, according to the product’s maker, Better Than Pants. The company claims it will also give your baby a workout, teach him a strong work ethic, and save you on cleaning costs.

What happens when you have to use a public bathroom and you don’t want to put your baby on the dirty floor? You can slide your child age 6 to 18 months into this hanging carrier until you’re done. It hangs on the stall wall in most public restrooms, and can also be used in many public fitting rooms and locker rooms.

Changing a baby boy’s diaper can be — interesting. A company looking to save you a change of clothes has invented the Weeblock—a cup-like covering that you place between his legs during the diaper change. They are machine washable and come in different colors and themes—including “Pee Party” (pictured), “Fountain of Youth” and “Lil Squirt.”

Here is yet another necklace idea for mom. A designer named Alexa in Minneapolis is selling this fetus in a jar necklace from her SweetObsolete shop on Etsy. It is not a real fetus, she explains on the site (she’s been asked the question). The bottle is filled with a “reddish transparent placenta-like resin.”

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